Top Posting, was Re: A plea to classiccmpers

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Wed Jan 22 20:55:01 2003

> Top posting is quite appropriate when not responding to specifics, and
> if someone needs to remember the context, they can scroll down. Having
> to unnecessarily scroll down is a major pain in the backside!!!!!!
> Generally speaking, I won't bother to read posts that start out with a
> lot of quoting rather than the meat of what someone is trying to say.

I hate trying to sort this out, however, when someone is replying at the top
and there's three or four different replies mixed together at the bottom
(even if they did in fact make an attempt to relevantly trim lines).

A. Because it disturbs the natural flow of questions.
Q. Why is top posting considered annoying?

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